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The truce of God: ninety years ago, Christian soldiers separated by war reached out to each other to celebrate their Lord's birth.(History--Faith In Action)
In August 1914, Europe's major powers threw themselves into war with gleeful abandon. Germany, a rising power with vast aspirations, plowed across Belgium, seeking to checkmate France quickly before Russia could mobilize, thereby averting the prospect of a two-front war. Thousands of young Germans, anticipating a six-week conflict, boarded troop trains singing the optimistic refrain: "Ausflug nach Paris. Auf Widersehen auf dem Boulevard." ("Excursion to Paris. See you again on the Boulevard.")
The French were eager to avenge the loss of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany in 1870. The British government, leery of Germany's growing power, mobilized hundreds of ...
- Western Front's weekday variety
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe STEVE MORSE November 24, 1994 700+ words
...stereotyped as a reggae club, the Western Front in Cambridge has more to offer...Gilmore says of the ultra-casual Western Front, located at 343 Western Ave...from 100 to 200 people), the Western Front hopes to give some Scullers bands...
- The Western Front: Ordinary Soldiers and the Defining Battles of World War I....
- Magazine article from: Infantry Magazine September 1, 2000 700+ words
The Western Front: Ordinary Soldiers and the Defining...illuminating as well. The length of the Western Front encompassed a stunning linearity over...numbers in terms of human life: The Western Front claimed over three-fourths of a million...
- All Quiet on the Western Front.(Bloom's Guides: All Quiet on the Western...
- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch September 1, 2008 700+ words
All Quiet on the Western Front Bloom's Guides Bloom's Literary...chelseahouse.com "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a well-known work throughout...Bloom's Guides: All Quiet on the Western Front" is a complete and comprehensive...
- Albert Palazzo, Seeking victory on the Western Front: the British army and...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian War Memorial Sheffield, Gary December 1, 2001 700+ words
...Palazzo, Seeking victory on the Western Front: the British army and chemical...Palazzo's Seeking victory on the Western Front, a work founded on Herculean...but surely, to victory on the Western Front. Palazzo's careful scholarship...
- All Quiet on the Western Front.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review Delahunty, Robert J. Yoo, John C. April 1, 2008 700+ words
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, By Erich Maria Remarque. A.W...Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front has been regarded as a landmark of...industrial scale. (10) Combat on the western front took place mainly over a "terrain...
- Battle Tactics of the Western Front.
- Magazine article from: The Historian McKenzie, Matthew A. January 1, 1996 700+ words
The appalling carnage of the Western Front led historians, writers, and...BEF) battle tactics on the Western Front. Griffith, a freelance author...challenges faced by the British on the Western Front and then examines how the BEF...
- An officer on the Western Front: Anthony Fletcher reads his grandfather's...
- Magazine article from: History Today Fletcher, Anthony August 1, 2004 700+ words
...soldiers who fell in that area of the Western Front and whose graves are not known...final German offensive on the Western Front began. Overall, that day, around...the training of officers for the Western Front. By the middle of September 1914...
- Artillery's Astrologers: A history of British survey and mapping on the Western...
- Magazine article from: The Geographical Journal MUMFORD, IAN March 1, 2001 700+ words
...battlefield tours of the sites along the Western Front. In dealing with the villains...in that Class about 4000 of the Western Front. Some 25 years later t he PRO...297, another 6649 maps of the Western Front. These reconstructed record sets...
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